Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-04
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Connecticut
"A steamboat which plies between
Nahant and Boston flies the flags OF All
nations.
-Eiehty-four different languages
and dialects are regularly spoken In
New York City.
The highest silver deposit in thee
world is on King Solomon's mountain,
in Colorado, fourteen thousand feet
above the Pacific ocean. :.
1t is estimated that six hundred
insects day are destroyed by pair OF
wrens. They have been observed to
leave their nests and return with in
sects from forty to sixty times an hour
"A coroner's jury at the inquest of
a man killed while walking on a
double-track railroad, brought in
verdict of Accidental death; deceased
being cross-eyed, was unable to tell on
which track the tram was coming. y.
The Epoch.
The United States pays every year
for cigars and cigarettes $l06,5OO,OO
and SIC, 900. 600 for tobacco smoked in
pipes. To this it adds the cost of
chewing tobacco, $50. o00, 900, bringing
the entire tobacco bill for the year up
to 1886, 500, 900.
Captain Williams, of the New York
police force, sailed his yacht for the
first time last Thursday. Stopping at
Cos Cob the hawser was cast ashore
and held for two hours by dog. The
faithful animal was an iron dog, an
chored securely in the pier.
Readers of some of the London pa
pers frequently find ghastly-looking
rcd human skeleton pasted on con-
spicuous part of their paper. This Is
not the work of the publishers, but of.
an enterprising quack doctor who takes
this way of advertising his nostrums.
The author of new book says:
Even when the simmering heats of
midsummer make the lower strata OF
the atmosphere tremulous with their
passion, the drowsiness which steals
over one who is free from the irksome-
ness of labor under the hot sun is
crowded with rare dreams and fancies."
This is just the weather to apply the
principles, for if heat doesn't simmer
now it will be difficult TO find the seq
son of its passion.
john Griffith, Of Battle Creek. sats
urated his feet and stockings with gas
cline to cure his corns and then
scratched a match on the slack of his
trousers to light his pipe. He didn't
light his pipe, though. The match and
the gasoline got together some way
and the junction caused flare-up in
which John took such an active part
Al, l. H. H. 70, r.
the time he gets the blisters on his feet
reduced it is likely that his corns will
be cured.
Hardly any of the best California
wines is the produce of a single vine
yard. They are the fruit of judicious
blends, based on chemical analysis and
the law of combinations. One good
wine is deficient in one element, an
other good wine in another. BY blend
ing the two more perfect wine than
either is produced. Some of the best
wines are made by blending in certain
fixed proportions three or four wines
grown in different vineyards, perhaps
in different counties. - Chicago Herald.
e. M. Gallaudet writes to Science
that deaf mutes enjoy n surprising i'm
munity from seasickness, though there
are exceptions. eff 1 may say word
from my own experience of a number
of ocean voyages, with a decided ten
dency to be seasick, think great help
may be had by keeping in ones berth
at the first approach of rough weather,
eating moderately, and not rising m
til the procession of digestion and as
sanitation have had time to be quite
fully completed after at least two or
three meals"
"A Jewish ''shadkin," or marriage
broker, in Brooklyn, n. Y, spent some
time in endeavoring to negotiate Il
marriage between customer who =
agreed to give ten per cent Of his
wife's dowry in case of success. and
one Kate Wolf, who was the pOssessOr
of $1,000. The shadkin's powers of
persuasion were unequal to the job,
however. as the girl protested that the
applicants mouth and nose were too
large. The broker and his client fell
out over the matter. and the result 10 q
lawsuit for damages between them
"A female servant who had been in
the habit of carrying out tea. sugar,
coffee, ETC., tied around her waist, un-
der her clothing, from the house in
which she was employed in New York.
was called by her mistress just as she
was going out the other night, and be-
fore the interview terminated the young
woman began TO leave trail OF rice
wherever she moved. A paper bag
full of it had broken. This led to her
arrest. and over 5000 worth of stolen
L. in
her room, in another part of the city.
SnobberY at the Counter.